The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of St Maximus the Confessor

Books reviewed:
Demetrios Bathrellos, The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of St Maximus the Confessor. Reviewed by Ivor J. Davidson University of Otago     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Theory For Religious Studies , William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐96639‐6), pp. xv + 168, Pb £10.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury René Girard: Violence and Mimesis , Chris Fleming, Key Contemporary Thinkers, Polity Press 2004 (0‐7456‐2948‐2), pp. xii + 211, Pb £15.99/$24.95
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought , Margaret R. Miles, Blackwell 2005 (Hb 1‐4051‐0845‐2, Pb 1‐4051‐0846‐0), pp. xxiv + 435, Hb £60/Pb £24.99
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire , Iain Gardner and Samuel N.C. Lieu (eds), Cambridge University Press 2004 (Hb 0‐5215‐6090‐X, Pb 0‐5215‐6822‐6), pp. xviii + 312, Hb £50/Pb £19.95
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris , Barbara B. Diefendorf, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐509582‐0), pp. ix + 340, Hb £36.50
Reviewed by Stephen Morris
New York Calvin's Christology , Stephen Edmondson, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐54154‐9), pp. xiv + 248, Hb $70/Pb $25.99
Reviewed by R. Ward Holder
Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH Honest to God: 40 Years On , Colin Slee (ed.), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02939‐2), pp. xiv + 160, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions , George Sumner, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2498‐6), pp. vi + 219, Hb £17.95/$26
Reviewed by Revd Barry Linney
Cherry Hinton St. Andrew, Cambridge Bound to Be Free: Evangelical Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Ecumenism Reinhard Hütter, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2750‐0), pp. x + 313, Pb £18.99/$28
Reviewed by Daniel M. Bell, Jr.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC Gathering: A Theology and Spirituality of Worship in Free Church Tradition , Christopher J. Ellis, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02967‐8), pp. viii + 327, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, County Durham Mission Implausible: Restoring Credibility to the Church , Duncan McLaren, Paternoster Press 2004 (1‐8422‐7295‐0), pp. 214, Hb £15.99
Reviewed by Gordon Lynch
University of Birmingham Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet , Lorne L. Dawson and Douglas E. Cowan (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐97022‐9), pp. vii + 279, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury The Way it Was: The Narrative of the Birth of Jesus , Matthew Byrne, Columba Press 2004 (1‐85607‐463‐3), pp. 178, Pb £7.99/€11.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Christian Attitudes to Marriage: From Ancient Times to the Third Millennium , Peter Coleman, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02956‐2), pp. xii + 234, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by Randall Jay Woodard
Silver Spring, Maryland Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist Theology and Globalization , Mary C. Grey, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02928‐7), pp. xii + 260, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life , William Schweiker and Charles T. Mathewes (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐24846), pp. ix + 242, Pb £25.99/ $36
Reviewed by Richard Nagle
Heythrop College, London A Time of Waiting: Images and Insights , Anne Thurston, Columba 2004 (1‐85607‐471‐4), pp. 93, Pb £6.99/€ 9.99 The Rosary in Space and Time , Ruth Rees, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐610‐1), pp. xiv + 140, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire     

Mysterium Christi: the Christologies of Maurice de la Taille and Karl Rahner

Abstract: This article argues that Maurice de la Taille's theology of created actuation by uncreated Act constructively develops Karl Rahner's Christology. The first part gives an account of de la Taille's theology of created actuation by uncreated Act through an examination of the three supernatural communications of the hypostatic union, beatific vision and sanctifying grace. The second part dialogically integrates the insights of de la Taille's theology with Rahner's Christology. The article demonstrates that de la Taille's theology could develop Rahner's Christology. This conclusion raises the question of the value of scholasticism as a method of theology.     

Actualism and Incarnation: The High Christology of Friedrich Schleiermacher

Abstract: Defining Schleiermacher's Christology simply as ‘low’ is inadequate, and based on a neglect of the crucial role that actualism plays in his theology. However, accounts that see his Christology as so high as to be docetic are equally unhappy. This article shows that there is a different way to read Schleiermacher's theology, one that avoids both views. By looking at how Schleiermacher's Christology proceeds in both ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ directions, it shows that through correctly understanding Schleiermacher's actualism we are able to see that, for Schleiermacher, Christ is the one who reproduces God's pure act of love through his own God‐consciousness. Christ, then, exists as pure activity and so, for Schleiermacher, is God incarnate. The article then addresses two common objections to Schleiermacher's Christology: that Schleiermacher's Christ is not fully human; and that, if Christ is pure act, what of the passion? The piece closes with an account of the relationship of Christology and Trinity.     

Can Narrative Christology Be Orthodox?

Abstract:  Questions raised about the coherence of narrative Christology in the work of James Wm McClendon, Jr, raise questions about the orthodoxy of narrative Christology on the whole. An exploration of these questions identifies at least two possible narrative formulations of the identity of Jesus Christ: in him we acknowledge two agents in one narrative and two narratives in one agent. This bending of concepts for bearing witness to the singularity of Jesus Christ follows the conciliar rules and establishes the orthodoxy of narrative Christology.     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: The Case for Religion , Keith Ward, Oneworld 2004 (1‐85168‐337‐2), pp. viii + 246, Hb £16.99/$24.95
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity , Jacob K. Olupona (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27320‐X), pp. xvi + 348, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Secular Judaism: Faith, Values, and Spirituality , Yaakov Malkin, Valentine Mitchell 2004 (0‐85303‐512‐1), pp. x + 150, Hb £42.50/$62.50, Pb £17.50/$26.50
Reviewed by Berel Dov Lerner
Western Galilee Academic College, Israel Truth and Scripture: Challenging Underlying Assumptions , Brenda Watson, Aureus Publishing Ltd 2004 (1‐899750‐27‐4), pp. xvi + 208, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University How the Bible Works: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism , Brian Malley, Alta Mira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0665‐7), pp. ix + 173, Pb £20.95
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham The Book of Esther in Modern Research , Sidnie White Crawford and Leonard J. Greenspoon (eds), JSOTS Series 380, T & T Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6663‐X), pp. xii + 266, Hb £70
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University Narrative Dynamics in Paul: A Critical Assessment , Bruce W. Longenecker (ed.), Westminster John Knox 2002 (0‐664‐22277‐3), pp. vi + 253, Pb £20
Reviewed by Michael Barram
Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California Paul's Letter to the Romans : A Social‐Rhetorical Commentary , Ben Witherington III with Darlene Hyatt, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4504‐5), pp. xxxviii + 421, Pb £24.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
Birmingham University Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking , Michael Fishbane, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐826733‐9), pp. xiv + 459, Hb £ 70
Reviewed by Mayer I. Gruber
Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel The Suffering of the Impassible God : The Dialectics of Patristic Thought , Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐1992‐6982‐3), pp. xii + 210, £45
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham The Christology of Anselm of Canterbury , Dániel Deme, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3779‐4), pp. xii + 263, Hb £42.50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria , Daniel A. Keating, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926713‐8), pp. x + 315, Hb £55
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Reformed Theology and Visual Culture : The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards , William A. Dyrness, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐54073‐9), pp. xv + 339, Pb £19.99/$30
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana The Lord's Prayer : A Text in Tradition , Kenneth W. Stevenson, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02937‐6), pp. ix +290, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Catholicism: The Story of Catholic Christianity , Gerald O’Collins and Mario Farrugia, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐925995‐X), pp. xiii + 409, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys , Mark A. Noll, InterVarsity Press 2003 (0‐8308‐2581‐9), pp. 330, Hb $23.00
Reviewed by Jonathan R. Baer
Wabash College, Indiana Baillie, Oman and Macmurray: Experience and Religious Belief , Adam Hood, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3135‐4), pp. x + 216, Hb £45
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham The Uniqueness and Universality of Jesus Christ: In Dialogue with the Religions , Massimo Serretti (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2212‐6), translated by Teresa Talavera and David C. Schindler, pp. xi + 163, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Karl Rahner: Theology and Philosophy , Karen Kilby, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐25965‐7), pp. ix + 160, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Petre uea: Between Sacrifice and Suicide , Alexandru Popescu, Ashgate Press 2004 (0‐7546‐5006‐5), pp. xxviii + 366, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition Amid Modernity and Postmodernity , Miroslav Volf and William Katerberg (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2752‐7), pp. xiv + 235, £14.99/$20
Reviewed by Stephen Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology Approach the Beyond , Regina Schwartz (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐96704‐X), pp. xii + 260, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana The Death of God and the Meaning of Life , Julian Young, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30790‐2), pp. vii + 236, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Does God Exist: The Craig‐Flew Debate , Stan W. Wallace (ed.), Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3190‐7; 0‐7546‐3189‐3), pp. x + 230, Pb £16.99/Hb £47.50
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Feminist Christian Encounters: The Methods and Strategies of Feminist Informed Christian Theologies , Angela Pears, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0990‐1), pp. vi + 198, 183, Hb £45
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Women's Faith Development: Patterns and Processes , Nicola Slee, Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0886‐7), pp. xii + 205, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Reconciliation in a World of Conflict , Luiz Carlos Susin and Maria Pilar Aquino (eds), SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐03076‐5), Concilium 2003/5, pp. 134, Pb £9.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Religion in International Relations: The Return from Exile , Fabio Petito and Pavlos Hatzopoulos (eds), Palgrave 2004 (1‐4039‐6207‐3), pp. x + 286, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership , Douglas A. Hicks, Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐52960‐3), pp. vii + 222, Pb £16.99/$25
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association Religion in America Since 1945: A History , Patrick Allitt, Columbia University Press 2003 (0‐231‐12154‐7), pp. xv + 313, Hb £21/$30
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Glastonbury Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society , Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh, Columbia University Press 2003 (Pb 0‐231‐12733‐2, Hb 0‐231‐12732‐4, Cloth), pp. xx + 243, Pb £15.50/$22.50, Hb £41.50/$59.50
Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett
The College of Saint Rose, New York The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics , Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐23506‐X), pp. xiii + 510, Hb £85/$124.95
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics in the Time of Many Worlds , William Schweiker, Blackwell 2004 (Hb 1‐4051‐1344‐8, Pb 1‐4051‐1345‐6), pp. xxv + 239, Hb £55/$61.95, Pb £16.99/$29.95
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Glastonbury Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present , Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4975‐X), pp. vi + 324, Pb £24.99/$35
Reviewed by Malcolm Brown
Cambridge Theological Federation The Character of Wisdom: Essays in Honour of Wesley Carr , Martyn Percy and Stephen Lowe (eds), Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3418‐3), pp. xii + 210, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield Cathedral Science, Theology, and Ethics , Ted Peters, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0825‐5), pp. x + 347, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism , Terence L. Nichols, The Christian Practice of Everyday Life Series, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐046‐0), p. 240, Pb $ 17.99
Reviewed by Paul Voelker
Loyola University Chicago God and the Nature of Time , Garrett J. DeWeese, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3519‐8), pp. xii + 294, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
University of Glasgow Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon , Roy Willis and Patrick Curry, Berg 2004 (1‐8597‐3687‐4), pp. vi + 170, Pb £ 15.99
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints by Elizabeth A. Johnson (London and New York: Continuum, 2003), xviii + 379 pp.
Reviewed by Ann Loades
Department of Theology
Abbey House
Palace Green
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3RS
UK The Rhetorical Word: Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority by Theo Hobson (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002), + 217 pp.
Reviewed by Wes Avram
Yale University Divinity School
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06410
U.S.A. Word and Supplement: Speech Acts, Biblical Texts, and the Sufficiency of Scripture by Timothy Ward (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), x + 332 pp.
Reviewed by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Yale University Divinity School
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06410
U.S.A. Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method by John Howard Yoder, edited by Alex Sider, Peter Dula, and Stanley Hauerwas (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2002), + 431 pp.
Reviewed by Glen H. Stassen
Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, CA 91182
USA Will There Be Free Will in Heaven? Freedom, Impeccability and Beatitude by Simon Francis Gaine (London: T&T Clark, 2003), xi + 137 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Barron
Mundelein Seminary
Mundelein, Ill 60060
USA Conversion In American Philosophy: Exploring the Practice of Transformation by Roger A. Ward (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2004), xli + 235 pp.
Reviewed by Donald L. Gelpi, S. J.
The Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
1735 LeRoy Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709
USA Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity by Paul J. Griffiths (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004), + 254 pp.
Reviewed by Oliver O’Donovan
Christ Church
Oxford OX1 1DP
UK Transcendence and Self‐Transcendence: On God and the Soul by Merold Westphal (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004), xiv + 235 pp.
Reviewed by Cyril O’Regan
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution by Jaroslav Pelikan (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), xiii + 216 pp.
Reviewed by H. Jefferson Powell
Duke Divinity School & Duke Law School
PO Box 90360
Durham NC 27708
USA Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology by Gerard Loughlin (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), xxx + 306 pp.
Reviewed by George Pattison
Christ Church
Oxford, OX1 1DP
UK     

A Feminist Lutheran Substantive Christology: Method and Methodology

Abstract : From a Euro‐American feminist perspective, not only the methods of North American ‘mainstream’ Christology but also of much feminist Christology needs refinement. The former must take into account the context of feminist consciousness, with particular attention to experience. The latter must reclaim kerygma and dogma. Drawn from history, kerygma, dogma, and experience, feminist Lutheran Christology is substantive, meaning that Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine and sufficient for salvation.     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth Reviewed by Oleg Bychkov
Ingolf U. Dalferth, Die Wirklichkeit des Möglichen: Hermeneutische Religionsphilosophie Reviewed by Matthias Gockel
Vincent J. Miller, Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture Reviewed by Michael L. Budde
John David Dawson, Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity Reviewed by John C. Cavadini
Stanley Hauerwas, Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence Reviewed by Clifford Green
Stephen van Erp, The Art of Theology: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics and the Foundations of Faith Reviewed by Mark Alan Bowald
John Inge, A Christian Theology of Place Reviewed by Belden C. Lane
Graham Hughes, Worship as Meaning: A Liturgical Theology for Late Modernity Reviewed by Jim Fodor
Denys Turner, Faith, Reason and the Existence of God Reviewed by David Burrell
Francesca Aran Murphy, Art and Intellect in the Philosophy of Étienne Gilson Reviewed by Trent Pomplun     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission , Harvey Whitehouse, AltaMira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0615‐0), pp. xiii + 191, Pb £18.95
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion , Jose Ignacio Cabezon and Sheila Greeve Davaney (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐97066‐0), pp. iv + 236, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy , Robert Eisen, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐517153‐5), pp. xii + 324, Hb £30
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Abilene Christian University With Reverence for the Word, Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam , Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish and Joseph W. Goering (eds), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐513727‐2), pp. xvii + 488, Hb £55
Reviewed by David Thomas
University of Birmingham Africa and the Bible , Edwin M. Yamauchi, Baker Academic 2004 (0‐8010‐2686‐5), pp. 297, Hb $26.99
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac , Edward Kessler, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐83542‐9), pp. xii + 222, Hb £45
Reviewed by Mark Newby
Birmingham The Ten Commandments in History: Mosaic Paradigms for a Well‐Ordered Society , Paul Grimley Kuntz, Eerdmans 2004 (0 8028 2660 1), pp. xiv + 226, Pb £17.99/$24
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School and International Professional Managers’ Association Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation , Mary Douglas, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926523‐2), pp. vi + 211, Hb £45
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Waiting for Josiah: The Judges , Philippe Guillaume, JSOTS Series 385, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6988‐4), pp. xiii +325, Hb £75
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in Biblical Worlds. Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza , Jane Schaberg, Alice Bach, Esther Fuchs (eds), T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐1582‐2), pp. x + 254, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Jesus and Gospel , Graham Stanton, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐00802‐6), pp. xii + 239, Pb £15.95
Reviewed by Philip Seddon
University of Birmingham The Byzantine Christ : Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor , Demetrios Bathrellos, Oxford University Press, 2004 (0‐19‐925864‐3), pp. xii + 228, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love : Divine Commands and Moral Obligations , C. Stephen Evans, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927217‐4), pp. x + 366 Hb £55
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield The Kingdom is Always but Coming : A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch , Christopher H. Evans, Library of Religious Autobiography Series, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4736‐6), pp. xxx + 348 Pb £19.99/$25
Reviewed by David True
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion : Michoacan, 1927–29 , Matthew Butler, A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph, Oxford University Press for the British Academy 2004 (0‐19‐72698‐8), pp. xx + 251, Hb £40
Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett
College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York Karl Barth : Theologian of Christian Witness , Joseph L. Mangina, Great Theologians, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0458‐6), pp. xiv + 208, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Thom Chittom Yves Congar's Theology of the Holy Spirit , Elizabeth Teresa Groppe, AAR Academy Series, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐516642‐6), pp. viii + 262, Hb £37.50
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melborne) Retribution, Repentance and Reconciliation , Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Studies in Church History Volume 40, Ecclesiastical History Society / Boydell and Brewer 2004 (0‐9529733‐9‐1), pp. xiv + 384, Hb £45/$75
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Queen's College, Birmingham Sienna, Civil Religion and the Sienese , Gerald Parsons, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐1516‐2), pp. xx + 197, Hb £50
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School and International Professional Managers’ Association Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas , Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister (eds), Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐514918‐1), pp. xiii + 338, Hb £45
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century , Mark Sedgwick, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐515297‐2), pp. xiv + 370, Hb £25
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham An Introduction to Third World Theologies , John Parratt (ed.), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐79739‐X), pp vii + 189, Pb £16.99/$ 25.99
Reviewed by Jason Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics , Samuel Wells, Brazos Press 2004 (1‐58743‐071‐1), pp. 236, Pb £14.99/$19.99
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective , David Burrell, Challenges in Contemporary Theology, Blackwell 2004 (Pb 1‐4051‐2171‐8, Hb 1‐4051‐2170‐X), pp. xxi + 266, Pb £19.99/Hb £60
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication , Rachel Muers, Blackwell 2004 (1‐4051‐1900‐4), pp. viii + 238, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Esther Reed
University of St Andrews Risking the Church: The Challenges of Catholic Faith , Richard Lennan, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927146‐1), pp. 269, Hb £50
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol A Church Drawing Near: Spirituality and Mission in a Post‐ Christian Culture , Paul Avis, T. & T. Clark 2003 (0‐567‐08968‐1), pp. xii + 227, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto , Ivan Petrella, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐4051‐5), pp. ix + 186, Hb £45
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity , Paul J. Griffiths, Brazos Press 2004 (1‐58743‐086‐X), pp. 254, Pb $18.99
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Furthering Humanity: A Theology of Culture , T.J. Gorringe, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐4032‐9), pp. vi + 283, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion , Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Routledge 2005 (0‐415‐30209‐9), pp. xii + 194, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Gordon Lynch
University of Birmingham Theological Aesthetics: A Reader , Gesa E. Thiessen (ed.), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02947‐3), pp. xvi + 400, Pb £25
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida , John Schad, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1‐84519‐020‐3), pp. vii + 177, Pb £15.95
Reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
University of Glasgow Michel Foucault and Theology: The Politics of Religious Experience , James Bernauer and Jeremy Carrette (eds), Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3354‐3), pp. 285, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Justin L. Barrett, AltaMira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0667‐3), pp. ix + 140, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Is God a Scientist? A Dialogue between Science and Religion , Robert Crawford, Palgrave Macmillan 2005 (1‐4039‐1688‐8), pp. vii + 179, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective , Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2695‐4), pp. x + 339, Pb £19.99/$32
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Human Rights and the Image of God , Roger Ruston, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02959‐7), pp. vii + 312, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Parish – People, Place and Ministry: A Theological and Practical Exploration , Malcolm Torry (ed.), Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐586‐X), pp. viii + 215, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand The Country Vicar: Reshaping Rural Ministry , David Osborne, Darton Longman and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52546‐3), pp. vii + 215, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Creating Uncommon Worship: Transforming the Liturgy of the Eucharist , Richard Giles, Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐590‐8), pp. xiv + 258, Pb £20
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed:
Mercy Amba Oduyoye. Beads and Strands: Reflections of an African Woman on Christianity in Africa. Kwame Bediako. Jesus and the Gospel in Africa: History and Experience. Kä Mana. Christians and the Churches of Africa: Salvation in Christ and the Building of a New African Society. Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Sarah J. Dille. Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in Deutero-Isaiah. Reviewed by Mark Brummitt
Mary E. Shields. Circumscribing the Prostitute: The Rhetorics of Intertextuality, Metaphor and Gender in Jeremiah 3.1–4.4. Reviewed by Mark Brummitt
Hasia R. Diner. A New Promised Land: A History of Jews in America. Reviewed by Michael A. Chester
David Booy (ed.). Autobiographical Writings of Early Quaker Women. Reviewed by Sally Bruyneel
Frank Jehle, William B. Eerdmans. Ever against the Stream: The Politics of Karl Barth, 1906–1968. Reviewed by Peter Kalve
William F. Storrar and Andrew R. Morton (eds). Public Theology for the 21st Century. Reviewed by John Armson
Flemming Rutlege. The Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings. Reviewed by Christy Lohr
Charles E. Curran. The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II. Reviewed by Bernadette McNary-Zak
Nancy Roth. An Invitation to Christian Yoga. Nancy Roth. Spiritual Exercises: Joining Body and Spirit in Prayer. Reviewed by Christy Lohr
Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigena (eds). Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. Reviewed by Andrew Dawson
Margaret Benefiel. Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations. Reviewed by Christy Lohr     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: James E. Atwell. The Sources of the Old Testament – A Guide to the Religious Thought of the Hebrew Bible.
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury Craig A. Evans (ed.). Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture.
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton Lester L. Grabbe. A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period – Volume 1. Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah.
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury Charles Matson Odahl. Constantine and the Christian Empire.
Reviewed by Tarmo Toom G.R. Evans (ed.). The First Christian Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church.
Reviewed by Tarmo Toom David Dunn‐Wilson. A Mirror for the Church: Preaching in the First Five Centuries.
Reviewed by Tarmo Toom Jim Fodor and Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt (eds). Aquinas in Dialogue: Thomas for the Twenty First Century.
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland Paul Helm. John Calvin's Ideas.
Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peter C. Hodgson. Hegel & Christian Theology: A Reading of the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion.
Reviewed by Owen Anderson Kenneth J. Collins. The Evangelical Moment: The Promise of an American Religion.
Reviewed by Bryan Bademan Robert K. Johnston. Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film.
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout Judith Plaskow. The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1973–2003.
Reviewed by Teresa J. Hornsby Rebecca J. Lester. Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent.
Reviewed by Marc Cortez Douglas A. Campbell (ed.). Gospel and Gender. A Trinitarian Engagement with Being Male and Female in Christ.
Reviewed by Sally Bruyneel Rosemary Radford Ruether. The Goddess and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History.
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale David Brown. God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience.
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey William R. Miller and Harold D. Delaney (eds). Judeo‐Christian Perspectives on Psychology: Human Nature, Motivation, and Change.
Reviewed by Hung‐En Sung Richard Nelson‐Jones. Cognitive Humanistic Therapy: Buddhism, Christianity and Being Fully Human.
Reviewed by Ruth Walker Stuart Chandler. Establishing A Pure Land on Earth: The Foguang Buddhist Perspective on Modernization and Globalization.
Reviewed by Elizabeth J Harris Nancy Tatom Ammerman. Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners.
Reviewed by Todd Breyfogle Russell Jeung. Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches.
Reviewed by Timothy S. Lee George L. Murphy. The Cosmos in the Light of the Cross.
Reviewed by Randall Otto Mikael Stenmark. How to Relate Science and Religion. A Multidimensional Model.
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra Philip Clayton. Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness.
Reviewed by Paul Voelker Joel B. Green and Stuart L. Palmer (eds). In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind–Body Problem.
Reviewed by Marc Cortez Paul J. Griffiths and Reinhard Hütter (eds). Reason and the Reasons of Faith.
Reviewed by Ronald Grant Nutter David F. Ford, Ben Quash and Janet Soskice (eds). Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty‐first Century.
Reviewed by Philip McCosker Richard Rorty, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala (eds). The Future of Religion.
Reviewed by Ruth Walker Robert Wuthnow. Saving America? Faith‐Based Services and the Future of Civil Society.
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten Linda Barnes and Susan Sered (eds). Religion and Healing in America.
Reviewed by Revd Canon Martyn Percy Ellen M. Umansky. From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews.
Reviewed by Michael A. Chester Daniel J. Price. Karl Barth's Anthropology in Light of Modern Thought.
Reviewed by Peter Kalve Eberhard Busch. The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology.
Reviewed by Thom Chittom Margaret Chatterjee. Gandhi and the Challenge of Religious Diversity: Religious Pluralism Revisited.
Reviewed by John Hick Suha Taji‐Farouki and Basheer M. Nafi (eds). Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century.
Reviewed by Jason Walsh Ron Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, Yvonne Haddad and Jane I. Smith (eds). Islam and the West Post 9/11.
Reviewed by Jeffry R. Halverson David Cook. Understanding Jihad.
Reviewed by Jason Walsh Anthony O’Mahony, Wulstan Peterburs and Mohammad Ali Shomali (eds). Catholics and Shi’a in Dialogue: Studies in Theology and Spirituality.
Reviewed by Jason Walsh Matthew Grimley. Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State between the Wars.
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology.
Reviewed by Mike Higton Simon Francis Gaine, Will There Be Free Will in Heaven? Freedom, Impeccability and Beatitude.
Reviewed by Lindsey Hall Denys Turner, Faith, Reason and the Existence of God.
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus.
Reviewed by Oliver Crisp Nicholas M. Healy, Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life.
Reviewed by Iain Taylor Eleonore Stump, Aquinas.
Reviewed by Iain Taylor Chris Fleming, René Girard: Violence and Mimesis.
Reviewed by Bruce Hamill Hans Boersma, Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition.
Reviewed by Ian A. McFarland Robert Sherman, King, Priest and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement.
Reviewed by Thomas A. Price Gerrit Scott Dawson, Jesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ's Continuing Incarnation.
Reviewed by Sandra Fach Elizabeth Teresa Groppe, Yves Congar's Theology of the Holy Spirit.
Reviewed by Paul M. Collins Jürgen Moltmann, Science and Wisdom.
Reviewed by Peter Forster Eberhard Busch, The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology; Joseph L. Mangina, Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness; Kurt Anders Richardson, Reading Karl Barth: New Directions for North American Theology.
Reviewed by Mike Higton Wallace M. Alston Jr and Michael Welker, eds., Reformed Theology: Identity and Ecumenicity.
Reviewed by Iain Taylor Reinhard Hütter, Bound to be Free: Evangelical Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Ecumenism.
Reviewed by Nicholas Healy Tuomo Mannermaa, Christ Present in Faith: Luther's View of Justification.
Reviewed by Matt Jenson D.C. Schindler, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth.
Reviewed by Cyril O’Regan     

The Holy Spirit and the Humanity of Christ in John Owen: A Re-Examination

This article re-examines John Owen’s construal of the Holy Spirit’s activity in the humanity of Christ. While Owen’s ‘Spirit Christology’ is both lauded as exemplary and criticized as nearly Nestorian, both positions are largely based on a shared (yet faulty) assumption regarding the key text of Owen’s ‘Spirit Christology’ (Pneumatologia 3:159–88; esp. pp. 160–1). In order to correct this assumption, this article examines the claims that Owen makes in this section of Pneumatologia within three different contexts: (1) Owen’s historical context; (2) the context of Owen’s broader corpus; and (3) the immediate context of these claims within the structure and argumentation of Pneumatologia as a whole. I suggest that this rereading of Owen’s Spirit Christology is able to retain many of the desirable theological implications of the original interpretation without the same theological difficulties.     

The Unity of Christ and the Anointing of the Spirit in Gregory of Nyssa’s Antirrheticus Adversus Apolinarium

I investigate Gregory of Nyssa’s use of the Spirit’s anointing motif in the Antirrheticus adversus Apolinarium to ground the unity of the divine and human in Christ, against Apolinarius of Laodicea’s own Spirit‐based account of Christ’s unity. Gregory’s three explicit references to Christ’s anointing by the Spirit – eternal, post‐passion and at conception – are analysed with respect to the exegesis of Psalm 44 (45):6‐7, Acts 2:36, John 17:5 and Luke 1:35. The development of Gregory’s Christology between Contra Eunomium III and the Antirrheticus is sketched and some concluding comments are given on the enduring influence this developed Christology had in In Illud: Tunc et ispse and In Canticum canticorum.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: William Schweiker, Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds.
Reviewed by Brian Brock Margaret R. Miles, The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought.
Reviewed by William C. Placher Daniel Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology.
Reviewed by John Flett Karen Kilby, Karl Rahner: Theology and Philosophy.
Reviewed by Michael Purcell Kevin D. Kennedy, Union with Christ and the Extent of the Atonement in Calvin.
Reviewed by Iain Taylor C. Helmer and C. Landmesser, eds., One Scripture or Many? Canon from Biblical, Theological and Philosophical Perspectives.
Reviewed by Andrew T. Lincoln Gabriel Flynn, Yves Congar's Vision of the Church in a World of Unbelief.
Reviewed by Paul M. Collins Paul Helm and Oliver D. Crisp, eds., Jonathan Edwards: Philosophical Theologian.
Reviewed by W. Ross Hastings Henrique Pinto, Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue.
Reviewed by John Flett David Lauber, Barth on the Descent into Hell: God, Atonement and the Christian Life.
Reviewed by Nathan R. Strunk     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
William T. Cavanaugh, Theopolitical Imagination . Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002, 126pp. £12.99 pb., £35.00 hb. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Murphy King's College, London
Sarah Coakley, ed., Rethinking Gregory of Nyssa . Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, 137pp. £17.99 Reviewed by Ivor J. Davidson University of Otago
Paul M. Collins, Trinitarian Theology, West and East: Karl Barth, the Cappadocian Fathers, and John Zizioulas . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xiv + 251pp. £40.00 Reviewed by Demetrios Bathrellos London
Adam Hood, Baillie, Oman and Macmurray: Experience and Religious Belief . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, 226pp. £47.50 hb. Reviewed by John Flett Princeton Theological Seminary
Donald K. McKim, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, £16.99 pb. Reviewed by Graham Tomlin Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Oliver O'Donovan and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics Past and Present . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004, 330 pp., $35.00 / £24.99 Reviewed by Dustin Resch Briercrest College and Seminary Caronport, Saskatchewan, Canada
Peter Scott, A Political Theology of Nature . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 275pp. £47.50 hb., £17.95 pb. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Murphy King's College, London
Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, 368pp. £22.95 Reviewed by Rod Taylor Oxford
Stephan van Erp, The Art of Theology: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics and the Foundations of Faith . Leuven: Peeters, 2004, 297pp., $40 Reviewed by Brian Horne London
Nigel Voak, Richard Hooker and Reformed Theology: A Study of Reason, Will, and Grace , Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xviii + 348pp. £53.00 Reviewed by Rowan A. Greer New Haven, Connecticut     

Spirit and Incarnation: Toward a Pneumatic Chalcedonianism

The Holy Spirit has often been used to define an alternative to Chalcedonian Christology that, by replacing the Word with the Spirit as the locus of Christ's divinity, is better able to honor Christ's humanity. Such alternatives not only display a serious misunderstanding of Chalcedon, but also exacerbate the problem they seek to address by accentuating Christ's difference from other human beings. While an orthodox Christology will see the Spirit as present in every one of Jesus' actions, this should be understood as a vindication rather than a rebuttal of Chalcedon.     

Dialogue in Dialog: Christology

David R. Mason, A Christology of Universal Redemptive Love , p.149
Carol Jacobson, Universality and Uniqueness: A Response to David Mason , p.160
Lois Malcolm, Generative Christology: A Response to David Mason , p.162
Paul Sponheim, Probing and Protesting: A Response to David Mason , p.164
David R. Mason, Response to Jacobson, Malcolm, and Sponheim , p.166     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Shulman, Lee S., Teaching as Community Property: Essays on Higher Education
Reviewed by Raymond Brady Williams Wolterstorff, Nicholas P., Educating for Life: Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning
Reviewed by William C. Placher Talvacchia, Kathleen T., Critical Minds and Discerning Hearts: A Spirituality of Multicultural Teaching
Reviewed by Patricia Zimmerman Beckman Haynes, Carolyn, ed., Innovations in Interdisciplinary Teaching
Reviewed by Carol Hepokoski Mirochnik, Elijah and Sherman, Debora C., eds., Passion and Pedagogy: Relation, Creation, and Transformation in Teaching
Reviewed by Jaime Clark‐Soles Bain, Ken, What the Best College Teachers Do
Reviewed by Russell Haitch Hargreaves, Andy, Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity
Reviewed by William McDonough